A nation of takers : America's entitlement epidemic / / Nicholas Eberstadt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815154103321
• Autore: Eberstadt Nick <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: West Conshohocken, Pa., : Templeton Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-69203-1; 1-59947-436-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Collana: New Threats to Freedom Series; New threats to freedom series
• Disciplina: 336.39
• Soggetti: Entitlement spending - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. America's growing dependency on government entitlements -- pt. II. Dissenting points of view.
• Sommario/riassunto: In A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country's foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government's total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy- to- read, four color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, eve